fifty-fifty

[fif-tee-fif-tee]

fifty-fif·ty

[fif-tee-fif-tee]
adjective
1.
equally good and bad, likely and unlikely, favorable and unfavorable, etc.: a fifty-fifty chance of winning.
adverb
2.
in an evenly or equally divided way: The board voted fifty-fifty on the merger.

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Fifty-fifty is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
3.
go fifty-fifty (on), to share equally in the cost, responsibility, or profits (of): We went fifty-fifty on the dinner check.
Also, 50-50.


Origin:
1910–15, Americanism
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fifty-fifty
 
adj, —adv
informal shared or sharing equally; in equal parts

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fifty-fifty

see under under go halves.

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